noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
assume epidemic etc proportions formal (= become or seem very great )
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Unless you deal with it quickly, the damage may assume serious proportions.
epidemic proportions (= very great size, especially in a particular place )
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Shoplifting has reached epidemic proportions.
flu epidemic
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Doctors now fear a flu epidemic .
reach epidemic etc proportions
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Alcohol abuse has reached epidemic proportions in this country.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
major
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Some progress was made upon a few, particularly the reduction of major epidemics of malaria, cholera, smallpox and yellow-fever.
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If, say, measles had shown such an increase, we should now be talking about a major epidemic .
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A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years.
■ NOUN
aids
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Recent topics include career guidance, parenthood and the AIDS epidemic .
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The support of top management will be necessary if you are to successfully carry out any approach to the AIDS epidemic .
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All the ingredients for an AIDS epidemic that has yet to begin.
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When the AIDS epidemic began in the early 1980s, Scolaro was called to treat a number of friends who became ill.
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In differing degrees they represent a retrogressive approach to the Aids epidemic that could cost tens of thousands of lives.
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No other methods have ever been found anywhere in any country during the entire course of the AIDS epidemic .
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And yet the country faces an AIDS epidemic every bit as catastrophic as the one that is ravaging its neighbours.
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And he has boosted federal spending to combat the AIDS epidemic .
cholera
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This exercise was carried out by a third year group in a secondary school studying a cholera epidemic .
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The church has held them through fire and cholera epidemics since they arrived here with the compliments of the Bishop of London.
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Reports are coming into the newsroom of a cholera epidemic in a nearby town.
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As already mentioned, Paredes y Arrillaga died in the summer of 1849, and Mariano Otero succumbed to the cholera epidemic .
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The direction of Baker's career was determined by the cholera epidemic of 1831-2.
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She also helped set up a convalescent home for patients from the East End after the cholera epidemic of 1867.
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Opposition sentiment was galvanized by a catastrophic famine and cholera epidemic in 1891-92.
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Sir James Kay Shuttleworth was a successful physician in Manchester during the great cholera epidemic of 1832.
flu
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Fortunately, full-blown flu epidemics are relatively rare.
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Jane died in the flu epidemic in 1916.
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Ah, that was the time we had a spring flu epidemic .
influenza
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Did you know that poor little Edna died in the influenza epidemic ?
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The joy of the end to the war was marred, unfortunately, by a worldwide influenza epidemic .
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But when she was 6 her parents died in the post-WorldWar I influenza epidemic .
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José's parents died in the influenza epidemic just after the First World War.
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He was also concerned about the influenza epidemics and studied the virus involved.
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She died in the influenza epidemic of 1919.
polio
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His interest in polio is said to have originated during the polio epidemic in New York City in 1931.
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If flies could be eliminated, then perhaps so could polio epidemics .
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What the experimenters did not account for in their preparations was the hysteria that surrounded polio epidemics .
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The result: a temporary reduction of flies, but no halt in the polio epidemic .
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In polio epidemics , rewards and punishments were dispensed with a random, devastating hand.
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Often the first separation was literal, through hospital isolation and quarantine, practices firmly established during the 1916 polio epidemic .
■ VERB
become
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Without even trying, it would seem, the Bourse has given birth to a fever that has fast become an epidemic .
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Green fields and hams: Slightly tweaked hamstrings are becoming epidemic at Dodgertown.
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Hepatitis B has become a hyper-epidemic with a 60 % infection rate.
cause
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A few weeks later he appeared at Chelmsford summer assizes, charged with causing an epidemic then raging in the town.
die
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Did you know that poor little Edna died in the influenza epidemic ?
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They died in epidemics of yellow fever, cholera, and smallpox.
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José's parents died in the influenza epidemic just after the First World War.
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Jane died in the flu epidemic in 1916.
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Unfortunately, the bride-to-be died in a smallpox epidemic , which plunged the city both into mourning and quarantine.
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My father died in the typhus epidemic .
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She died in the influenza epidemic of 1919.
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More than 340 people died in four consecutive epidemics .
face
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The country must face this epidemic as a unified society.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a cholera epidemic
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AIDS has become an epidemic in some countries.
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Alcohol abuse has reached epidemic proportions in this country.
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Doctors warn that a flu epidemic may be on the way.
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The recent epidemic of car thefts has been blamed on bored teenagers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In an average year, about 35 babies suffer rubella damage, but an epidemic will normally claim about 70 victims.
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In polio epidemics, rewards and punishments were dispensed with a random, devastating hand.
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In the face of an epidemic which was sweeping away our friends and lovers, we sought help where we could.
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Researchers studying epidemics in Chicago and Buffalo in the forties offered several theories.
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The epidemic had already taken a terrible toll in his country.
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The decision came amidst continuing reports of severe malnutrition and health epidemics.
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The result: a temporary reduction of flies, but no halt in the polio epidemic .
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This exercise was carried out by a third year group in a secondary school studying a cholera epidemic .